Forge Quotes
"I HEARD BULLETS WHISTLE AND BELIEVE ME, THERE IS SOMETHING CHARMING IN THE SOUND."
"BUT WHEN I SAW LIBERTY POLES AND THE PEOPLE ALL ENGAGED FOR THE SUPPORT OF FREEDOM, I COULD NOT BUT LIKE AND BE PLEASED WITH SUCH THING."
"THE COURAGE AND OBSTINACY WITH WHICH THE AMERICANS FOUGHT WERE THE ASTONISHMENT OF EVERYONE."
"THIS DAY THE GREAT MR. BURGOYNE WITH HIS WHOLE ARMY SURRENDERED THEMSELVES AS PRISONERS OF WAR . . . THE GREATEST CONQUEST EVER KNOWN."
"Each soldier stood tall, each soul afire with pride."
"The appearance of our army recalled the variations of the trees and leaves in the forest behind us."
"Liberty is equally as precious to a black man, as it is to a white one, and bondage equally as intolerable to the one as it is to the other."
"We stood for hours, all that afternoon, as our six thousand prisoners paraded between our lines in defeat."
"It would be useless for us to denounce the servitude to which the Parliament of Great Britain wishes to reduce us, while we continue to keep our fellow creatures in slavery just because their color is different from ours."
"We’re crowded here, but it’s better than that frozen hovel on the hill. You’ll have decent clothes and food."
"I function as an aide to the committee from Congress."
"This is for the best. You’ll see that in time."
"Make sure that Curzon has something on his feet."
"I am neither an officer nor a soldier. This, sir, is my unhappy case!"
"I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province."
"To make a calf's foot pie: First set four calves feet in a saucepan in three quarts of water, with three or four blades of mace; let them boil softly till there is about a pint and a half, then take out your feet."
"The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery—that they don’t want to be free—that man is either ignorant or a lying person."
"Everything is trade, you know, even between a master and a servant."
"The gods chained him to a rock to punish him. Every day an eagle was sent to peck out the fellow’s liver. Every night the liver grew back, so he did not die. The torture started anew each morning. All because he stole something that should have been his to begin with."
"I would fight the eagle and the chains and that mountain as long as I had breath."
"Upon the whole my dearest friend and father, I hope my plan for serving my country and the oppressed Negro-race will not appear to you the chimera of a young mind deceived by a false appearance of moral beauty, but a laudable sacrifice of private interest to justice and the public good."
"To feed them proper required a million pounds of bread and a million pounds of meat every month."
"Slaves who were not friends could still share common sentiment about the injustices they suffered."
"Soldiers who do not march together make an army of baby birds... Soldiers who march together make an army of steel!"
"What’s the point of being a soldier if you can’t count on your mates?"
"His Excellency today appealed to the officers of this army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause."
"When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (in spite of all the virtue we can boast,) the woman that deliberates is lost."
"I don’t care about the rebellion or the King, you know that."